Table Of ContentThe Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics
Heritagelanguagesareminoritylanguageslearnedinabilingualenviron-
ment. These include immigrant languages, aboriginal or indigenous lan-
guages,andhistoricalminoritylanguages.Inthelasttwodecades,heritage
languageshavebecomecentraltomanyareasoflinguistic research,from
bilingual language acquisition, education, and language policies to theor-
etical linguistics. Bringing together contributions from a team of inter-
nationally renowned experts, this handbook provides a state-of-the-art
overview of this emerging area of study from a number of different per-
spectives, ranging from theoretical linguistics to language education and
pedagogy. Presenting comprehensive data on heritage languages from
around the world, it covers issues ranging from individual aspects of
heritage language knowledge to broader societal, educational, and policy
concerns in local, global, and international contexts. Surveying the most
current issues and trends in this exciting field, it is essential reading for
graduate students and researchers, as well as language practitioners and
otherlanguageprofessionals.
silvina montrul is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Spanish
and Portuguese and in the Department of Linguistics at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her recent publications include Heritage
Language Acquisition (2016) and El bilingüismo en el mundo hispanohablante
[BilingualismintheSpanish-speakingworld](2013).
maria polinsky is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland,
College Park, and director of the National Heritage Language Research
CenteratUCLA.RecentpublicationsincludeDeconstructing Ergativity(2016)
andHeritageLanguagesandTheirSpeakers(2018).
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University ofIllinois, Urbana-Champaign
Maria Polinsky
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Contents
ListofFiguresandTables pagexii
ListofContributors xvi
Acknowledgments xviii
Introduction:HeritageLanguages,HeritageSpeakers,
HeritageLinguistics SilvinaMontrulandMariaPolinsky 1
PartI HeritageLanguagesaroundtheWorld 11
1 SlavicHeritageLanguagesaroundtheGlobe BernhardBrehmer 13
2 HeritageLanguagesinEurope TanjaKupisch 45
3 HeritageLanguagesinSoutheasternEurope NataliaPavlou
andKleanthesK.Grohmann 69
4 HeritageLanguagesinChina LindaTsungandLubeiZhang 91
5 HeritageLanguagesinJapanandKorea Hyun-SookKangand
JamesHyeSukYoon 111
6 HeritageLanguagesinIsrael:AMultilingualTapestrywith
HebrewThreads NataliaMeir,SusanJoffe,RonaldShabtaev,
JoelWalters,andSharonArmon-Lotem 129
7 HeritageLanguagesinAotearoaNewZealandandAustralia
CorinneA.Seals 156
8 HeritageLanguagesinCanada NaomiNagy 178
9 AsianHeritageLanguagesintheUnitedStates:Chineseand
HindiLanguageCommunities ShereenBhalla,NaLiu,and
TerrenceG.Wiley 205
10 TheVitalityofSpanishasaHeritageLanguageinthe
UnitedStates MariaM.Carreira 230
11 GermanicHeritageVarietiesintheAmericas:Socialand
LinguisticPerspectives JanneBondiJohannessenand
JosephSalmons 252
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12 ArabicinNorthAmerica AbdulkafiAlbirini 277
13 HeritageLanguagesinSouthAmerica JohnM.Lipski 305
14 LanguageAttritionandHeritageLanguageReversal
inReturnees CristinaFloresandNealSnape 351
PartII ResearchApproachestoHeritageLanguages 373
15 HeritageLanguageResearchandTheoreticalLinguistics
ElabbasBenmamoun 375
16 TheEmergenceofHeritageLanguage:ACaseStudy
fromKorean WilliamO’GradyandChae-EunKim 399
17 SociolinguisticApproachestoHeritageLanguages
AndrewLynchandNettaAvineri 423
18 ThePsycholinguisticsofHeritageLanguages JillJegerskiand
IrinaA.Sekerina 449
19 ContactLinguisticsandHeritageLanguages
ItxasoRodríguez-OrdóñezandLorenaSainzmaza-Lecanda 471
20 ANarrative-EthnographicApproachtoResearchonHeritage
LanguageDevelopment AgnesWeiyunHe 499
21 Corpus-BasedMethodologiesintheStudyof
HeritageLanguages OlesyaKisselev 520
22 CurrentTrendsandEmergingMethodologiesinCharting
HeritageLanguageGrammars FatihBayram,GraziaDiPisa,
JasonRothman,andRoumyanaSlabakova 545
PartIII GrammaticalAspectsofHeritageLanguages 579
23 PhoneticsandPhonologyofHeritageLanguages
CharlesB.Chang 581
24 MorphologyofHeritageLanguages MichaelT.Putnam,
LaraSchwarz,andAndrewD.Hoffman 613
25 SyntaxofHeritageLanguages TerjeLohndal 644
26 SemanticsofHeritageLanguages TaniaIonin 668
27 DiscourseandInformationStructureinHeritageLanguages
OksanaLaleko 691
28 PragmaticsinHeritageLanguages IrinaDubinina 728
PartIV HeritageLanguageEducation 759
29 ElementarySchoolHeritageLanguageEducationalOptions
andOutcomes KimPotowski 761
30 Community-OrganizedHeritageLanguagePrograms
JinSookLeeandHuayChen-Wu 777
31 CurricularandProgrammaticLanguageDevelopment
OpportunitiesforUniversity-LevelHeritageLanguageLearners
SaraBeaudrie 803
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